Note 258 — THE SHIELD OF HERCULES.
George Chapman translation
Pursuit was there.] Homer, Il. vi. 5:
She charged her shoulder with the dreadful Shield, The shaggy Ægis, border’d thick around With Terror: there was Discord, Prowess there, There hot Pursuit. There Discord raged, there Tumult, and the force Of ruthless Destiny. She now a chief Seiz’d newly wounded, and now captive held Another yet unhurt, and now a third Dragg’d breathless through the battle by his feet: And all her garb was dappled thick with blood. Like living men they travers’d and they strove, And dragg’d by turns the bodies of the slain. Cowper, book xviii. Shield of Achilles.